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    Pour Me Another: An Opinionated Guide to Gold Country Wines
    Pour Me Another: An Opinionated Guide to Gold Country Wines
    Pour Me Another: An Opinionated Guide to Gold Country Wines
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    Pour Me Another: An Opinionated Guide to Gold Country Wines

    By David Locicero

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    The Gold Country of California is home to many excellent but little known wineries. Pour Me Another is an opinionated guide to the wines and wineries of the Sierra Foothills. If you want an alternative to Napa and Sonoma, a wine region that isn't over run with tourists, where tasting won't cost you an arm and a leg, and where wine novices are welcome, the Gold Country is for you!

    With entries for 68 different wineries and vineyards in California's Amador and El Dorado counties , Pour Me Another, is the definitive guide to Gold Country wines. Each entry has a tasting notes form where you can note your own observations about the wines you tasted.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpinionatedWineGuide.com
    Release dateAug 14, 2014
    ISBN9781501481055
    Pour Me Another: An Opinionated Guide to Gold Country Wines

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      Pour Me Another - David Locicero

      Acknowledgements

      Many people have contributed to this volume. First and foremost, a heartfelt thank you to Virginia McNeill and Jason Crouch, our very good friends, who first introduced us to the wines of El Dorado County, our first foray into the wines of the California Gold Country.

      A raised glass of gratitude and a thank you also to Robert, Melicent, Markus, Gladys, Michael and Edward our enthusiastic partners in the exploration of the wineries and wines. I would also like to thank Aisling D’Art for her enthusiasm, support and great ideas for incorporating QR code technology.

      Thank you also to the owners, wine makers and tasting room staffs at all of the wineries mentioned in this book. Were it not for their skills, talents, friendliness and sense of community, this book never would have come to be.

      I would also be remiss if I were not to acknowledge and thank the folks at the El Dorado Winery Association and the Amador County Vintners Association for their awesome websites.

      And finally, thank you to my partner in exploration and tasting as well as in life, Jeff Elardo, for his enthusiastic encouragement and adventurous spirit.

      The success of this book is in their hands as well as mine, though any and all faults are mine alone.

      How to Use This Guide

      Guide books are, of necessity, hands on type books. They need to be easy to navigate, clear and, in my opinion, provide space for the reader to make their own notes. This guide is designed for the traveler, and is intended to tempt you out to the Gold Country, to help you plan your driving, and to keep track of the wines you tasted and liked.

      Organization

      This book is divided in to five main sections:

      About Wine Tasting

      Getting to Gold Country

      Gold Country

      Amador County,

      El Dorado County,

      The final two sections make up the heart of the book, with maps and entries for the wineries and vineyards.

      Each of the final two sections starts with a map of the specific geographic area with the wineries located in a general way. The map is followed by a brief introduction to the geographic area. Additional, more detailed maps are provided in each geographic section.

      I have arranged the wineries in smaller geographical groupings by clusters of wineries to make planning driving easier. Within those smaller groupings the wineries and vineyards are listed in alphabetical order, with each entry having the specific information about the wineries locations, hours of operation, contact information and a description of what I like about the wines.

      Please note, most of the wineries are open on Saturday and Sunday. Some are also open on Friday and Monday. A smaller group is open every day. Most will be closed on some national holidays, though not all. Please call ahead if you will be wine tasting on a holiday weekend.

      A complete index of wineries and vineyards is provided at the end of the book, with a page reference to the listing.

      QR Codes

      Each of my maps is accompanied by a QR code, that funny square pattern of black and white boxes. These codes can be read using the camera on your smart phone if you have a bar code scanner app on your phone. When you scan these codes with your bar code scanner app you will be taken to a Google Maps version of the map in your phone.

      I have also used the QR codes to provide in-book links to websites for hotels, wineries and so on. I hope that you find this useful!

      Description: qrcode

      The QR code above, when scanned with your smart phone’s bar code scanner app, will provide a direct link to the companion website, OpinionatedWineGuide.com.

      Tasting Notes

      In my years of driving these roads and tasting these wines, I have learned that my memory is not as good as it once was. Was that amazing Zinfandel a 2004 or a 2007? Which wine was it that we really loved at Crystal Basin? Where did we buy the futures?

      I strongly recommend keeping tasting notes. There are many wine journals available on the market these days that provide blank forms for you to fill out when you are tasting wines. I use a simple blank book that fits in my shirt pocket. I typically note, the name of the wine, the vintage, the grape variety and what I taste and or think of the wine.

      The paperback version of this book has a page with a simple blank tasting note form for each of the wineries. Since typing out notes on the Kindle is not convenient, those pages have been eliminated in the Kindle edition.

      Companion Website

      This book also has a companion website, OpinionatedWineGuide.com. Books are static, but wine isn’t.

      Since wine changes as it ages, wineries produce new wines, and new wineries open almost every year, the website allows me to keep you up to date on all of the post publication information and opinions between editions of the guide.

      So lets taste!

      About Wine Tasting

      There is a lot of fuss and bother about wine tasting. The activity is rife with language that most people don’t use. It is portrayed with a seemingly endless list of esoteric nonsense that makes wine tasting seem out of reach of the ordinary wine drinker at best, or pretentious twaddle at worst.

      I believe that wine tasting is really a very simple activity that can be as nuanced or as straight forward as you are comfortable with. In this section, I’ll touch on some basics of wine tasting to give you, if you have never partaken in the activity before, an idea of what to expect and what is expected of you. I’ll also provide you with an introduction to wine tasting that both beginners and seasoned drinkers can put to use.

      I encourage you to take notes as you are tasting wines. It sounds wine-geeky, but if you start taking notes, it helps you to slow down in your tasting and be more deliberate about it. Also, if you are tasting and drinking wine on a regular basis, keeping tasting notes will help you remember the wines you’ve had, whether you liked them or not and if you might want to buy it when facing a familiar label in the store.

      In this book each winery description has a page for taking tasting notes. It is my hope that by recording your impressions of the wines, the book will become a lasting reference for your travels through Gold Country and your explorations of Gold Country wines.

      Tasting Room Etiquette

      If this is your first time to go wine tasting, you are in for a treat. Most wineries, and all of the wineries and vineyards in this book, have a tasting room, a room that is open to the public where they pour samples of wines for you to taste. Their hope is that you will like one or more of the wines well enough to make a

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